Antonya Nelson Quotes

Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy - how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty.

Antonya Nelson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 6, 1961

Topics

BeautyGirlCultureMeYouth

In 'Queer as Folk,' we had three or four sex scenes in every episode, so I got used to doing that very early on. Those kinds of scenes can be challenging. They take a bit of time, and everyone's a bit nervous.

Jeremy Podeswa

TimeDoingEarlySexThreeNervous

Sci-fi is just as much about social science as technology.

Robert J. Sawyer

TechnologyScienceSocialJustMuch

I've run into people in my life who were so dramatic; people who are so extreme and so frustrating to be around that you end up thinking about them and talking about them for literally years after your experience with them is over. I've had that happen to me, and I've seen it happen to other people. I find it fascinating.

Steve Martin

LifeExperiencePeopleMeThinking

When my stepmother had my sister, Katharine Hepburn dropped by to say hello. She came with George Cukor, who wasn't a star, but he was a famous director. He was also my grandmother's best friend, so I knew him well as a kid. But when George showed up with Katharine Hepburn, I was utterly star struck.

Tony Goldwyn

FriendBestSisterBest FriendSay

Comedy is not something that a person can fake or learn how to do.

Lizzy Caplan

FakeLearnComedyPersonSomething

Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them at the time.

Jorge Amado

ChangeTodayTimeBelieveWrite

For food to be romantic, it should be light. Too many times people plan a romantic meal, and the food is too heavy.

Jose Andres

LightFoodRomanticPeoplePlanToo

Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.

Dianne Feinstein

LosingWinningEverythingLittleMay

When I am not working, my family are the most important.

Antonio Conte

FamilyI AmImportantWorkingMost

I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write.

Anne McCaffrey

GoodEnergyBadBackYoungWrite

Jesus Christ will be the leader of an intergalactic earth evacuation. We're getting some earth leaders up there to check the mother ship. The Bible says that the sky will be glorious and Christ will come back to us all.

Nina Hagen

LeaderMotherSkyBibleShipEarth

You make sacrifices to become a mother, but you really find yourself and your soul.

Mariska Hargitay

MotherSoulYourselfYouFindYour

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